Improving Public Funding Allocation to Reduce Geographical Inequalities: Metadata and Documentation, 2024

41 interviews were carried out between October and December 2024 with policy makers and practitioners across national and local government to 1) understand policy practitioner insight into current local government funding allocations aimed at reducing socio-economic disparities; 2) highlight the distinctions between devolved and non-devolved areas and differences within these groups in success and failures of funding allocations; 3) explore views on and perceived priorities for reform. These objectives are reflected in the interview schedule being deposited. A semi-structured approach allowed us to maintain consistency across the full set of interviews, and across our outputs and writeups, while leaving space for flexibility and to pursue lines of inquiry as needed.